Eduardo Chillida quotes:

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.